Our moods are like weather, constantly changing. When a cloud appears, it’s time to mobilize all your resources to help you get through it. Whether you feel blue, blah, or just plain gloomy. But do you think only weather affects our mood? I think that's not the only thing that affects our mood, everything around us affects our moods, feelings, personality and us. Example sometimes when I heard a rock music I feel I'm in a good mood to play a musical instrument or when I'm in the mood to do my assignments, but my friends ask me to go out and hangout with them. All that examples affects our mood, but do you think that is the true meaning of mood?
In dictionary, Mood is defined as a state or quality of feeling at a particular time. It is simply mean a subjective and emotional state that people may experienced that may last anywhere from a few minutes to several weeks.
In an article by Amado-Boccara I, Donnet D, and Olié JP from the website "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" entitled "The concept of mood in psychology".
The meaning of mood in psychology is brief explained to that article, that "mood is considered as a group of persisting feelings associated with evaluative and cognitive states which influence all the future evaluations, feelings and actions".
I think that it is true that it affects all the components of our lives like our personalities, emotions, and feelings. And also that article said that mood is difficult to define because it depend on us how we will understand the perception of mood of other people. It means that everyone of us has our own perception or understanding about mood, for example I do something that will turn me to be in a good mood but because of that someone turns to be in a bad mood that's why mood is difficult to define and it depends to a person on how he or she will react on it.
That is why it is important to be open and understandable to everyone because not everyone of us can determine or understand other people's mood easily because they don't know what is the main cause of it, why they are in a happy or bad mood, but some said that it is because they have a good sleep, or a good morning and also because they have no sense of stress in their lives.
Next is, the most common moods that that we know is positive mood.
In the article of Marcia Hughes from the website "www.cgrowth.com" entitled "Positive Mood = Success".The writer said that "a positive mood counts in the quality of your day and in your organization’s success".
I learned that being in a good mood can be caused by many different aspects of our daily lives and especially our emotions and personalities. Because according again to the article example that people who has optimistic personality traits are more like to display an upbeat and a happy mood and can easily relate to other people.
But there is this one article from "link.springer.com" entitled "Positive mood is associated with the implicit use of distraction" by Renée K. Biss, Lynn Hasher, and Ruthann C. Thomas
They explained that most of people in a positive mood are can easily be distracted, example for this would be if you were trying to study in the library (considering you are in a positive mood) you see people constantly walking around or making small noises. But the conclusion for this is, happy person may be more sensitive to the hedonic consequences of message processing than sad people, because people in the positive mood always think positive, that is why their ideas and thoughts are more likely to express well.
They explained that most of people in a positive mood are can easily be distracted, example for this would be if you were trying to study in the library (considering you are in a positive mood) you see people constantly walking around or making small noises. But the conclusion for this is, happy person may be more sensitive to the hedonic consequences of message processing than sad people, because people in the positive mood always think positive, that is why their ideas and thoughts are more likely to express well.
